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No. 349,970. Patented Sept. 28, 1886.

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JAMES B. ANDREWVS AND HENRY R. GILLINGHAM, OF BALTIMORE, MD.

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BPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 349,970, dated September 28, 1886.

Application filed August 10, 1886. Serial No. 210,502.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that we, JAMES B. ANDREWS and HENRY R. GILLINGHAM, of Baltimore, State of Maryland, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Liquid Packages; and we do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invent-ion, such as will enable others skilled. in the art to which it pertains to make and use it, reference being bad to the accompanying drawing, which forms part ofthis specification.

Our invention relates to an improvement in packages for the transportation of liquid and pasty substances; and it consists in the combination of an outer inclosing-case of wood, a liquid-proof tin box, which is placed inside of the wooden case and made to fit snugly therein, a tubular or hollow absorbent pad, in side of which'the bottle is placed, and asepa rate pad of absorbent material which is placed over the end of the bottle, all of which will be more fully described hereinafter.

The object of our invention is to provide a package which is intended especially for the transportation of liquid and pasty substances through the mails, and constructed so that in case of the breakage of the bottle or leakage therefrom, the liquid or other substance will be absorbed by the absorbent material which is placed around the bottle in the tin box, and thus absolutely prevent any injury to other portions of the mail.

The accompanying drawing represents a vertical section of a package embodying our invention.

A represents the bottle, which is to be filled with liquid or any pasty substance, and which is placed inside of the hollow or tubular pad or casing B, which is made of absorbent material, and which is open at one end for the insertion of the bottle, and which is closed at the other end so as to form a pad or cushion, a, for the bottom of the bottle to rest upon. This pad or casing B will either be made tubular or angular in shape, according to the shape of the bottle, and will be made of blotting-paper or any other suitable absorbent material which will answer to absorb the liquid or pasty substance in case the bottle (No model.)

should become broken or there be a leakage therefrom. This pad or casing can be cut so as to suit the length of the bottle that is being used. In order to make this pad or casing about the same length as the tin box 0, in which it is to be inclosed, the end of the pad can be cut off; or there may be several separate and distinct pads,D,used, so as to prevent the casing or pad B from moving endwise in the box. The pads D are made of narrow strips of blotting-paper or other suitable ab-' sorbent material, and will be placed upon the end of the pad or casing 0, not only for the purpose of catching any leakage from the bottle, but for the purpose of preventing the pad or casing G from being moved endwise in the box 0. This tin box 0 will be made either tubular or angular, as may be desired, and is provided with a screw-cap, G, which has a lining of cork or other suitable material, H, inside of it, so as to prevent any leakage from the box in case the bottle should become broken and the absorbent material should not take up all of the liquid. This tin box 0 serves as a protector both for the pad or casing B and the bottle. The pad or casing 13 being elastic, should by any accident the tin box he dropped or struck, will prevent the blow from being communicated to the bottle which is placed inside of the pad or casing. To still further protect the contents of the bottle, the tin box 0, after it has been securely sealed up, is placed inside of the wooden package I, as shown, and is then held in place by a'string, which is tied around the package. This string is prevented from coming off the package by grooves 0 cut in its ends, and in which grooves the strings are held. This package may consist of a block which has been bored out so as to just receive the tin box, or a wooden casing of any kind which has a suitable thickness to protect the tin box and its contents. Upon this block the directions will be marked, written, or otherwise attached.

As the bottle is protected from any violent shocks by the elasticity of the absorbent material, and as the wooden block and the tin box prevent any possibility of the bottle being crushed in the mail, it will be seen that an absolutely safe package is made for the a water-proof cap, and the wooden block ortransportation of fluid or pasty substances casing in which the tin box is inc1osed,sub-

through the mails or by express companies.

Having thus described our invention, we 5 claim- The combination, in a package for the transportation of liquid or pasty substances through the mails, of the pad or casing B, made of absorbent material, the separate and 10 distinct pad D, the tin box 0, provided with stantially as set forth;

In testimony whereof we affix onr signatures in presence of two witnesses.

JAMES B. ANDREWS. HENRY R. GILLINGHAM. Witnesses:

JOHN J. DUNN, H. O. HENDERSON. 

